City Shadow

This is a shadow cast by a park bench downtown.

Carolina Theater

The Carolina Theater opened on Halloween Night in 1927. It has been beautifully restored and is a popular venue for all kinds of performing arts, as well as classic movies.

Greensboro Skyline

Coming home from church, I saw the moon rising and knew that if I could find a good shooting location, this was an opportunity to get some nice photos of our skyline. I drove up and down the streets, looking for an angle, parked next to the baseball stadium, and noticed that a tall building across the street had a fire escape on the east wall. I raced up the steps to the top floor and shot these pictures.

The crane is at the site of the old Wachovia Tower, a 1960s office high-rise that has sat empty for years and is now being converted into condominiums.

Tin-Paneled Entry

The entryway to this downtown bar is covered with tin paneling, often seen on ceilings of early 20th century stores. When I took this photo on a Sunday morning, it smelled of stale beer and cigarettes.

Decorative Ironwork on Cone Export Building

The Cone Export and Commission Building in downtown Greensboro was built about 1924. I liked the shadows and reflections of the ironwork in this photo.

Security Van Lines

The old signs painted on the sides of buildings are fading away, literally and figuratively, so I try to preserve each one I see by taking a photo of it. I hope to document all the signs in Greensboro--don't know what I'll do with it, but it will be a nice collection to have. This one is for a moving company, I'm guessing from the 1950s or so, based on the old phone number. An Amtrak train rolled by while I was shooting, and I thought it added an element of interest to the photo.

Daily Bread Flour Mill

Fountain at Center City Park

The highest motive is to be like water.
Water is necessary to all living things, yet asks nothing in return.
Rather, it flows humbly to the lowest level.
Nothing is weaker than water, yet against those things that are strong and hard,
nothing can surpass it nor stand in its way.
May we all learn the Way of water.
---A Buddhist Saying